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...Paris, then returned home and settled down to life in the country with her painter husband and two sons, now 15 and 16. A sporadically lapsed Catholic, Mrs. Gray demonstrated against the war in Viet Nam, was busted, got involved with the Berrigan brothers and wrote Divine Disobedience, a splendid book about priestly radicals...
...campaign humor at the source. "I'm introducing the Federal Joke Registration Act," he reports, "under which politicians must audition before a Federal Joke Review Board composed of Ed Muskie, John Gronouski, Peter Rodino, Muhammad Ali and Barbara Jordan." And Gerald Nachman has come up with a splendid suggestion. Presidential terms are too long and campaigns too infrequent, he feels, to overcome the soporific aftereffects of a pair like Ford and Carter. "It would be nice to have a new President every year to give us new material," concludes Nachman. "If he were funny enough we could elect...
Rites of Passage, the portmanteau title for three short films about the painful passing of adolescence, is a decidedly mixed blessing. Most prominently, the program offers two splendid performances. In Bernice Bobs Her Hair, Shelley Duvall brings a graceful vulnerability and unguarded beauty to the role of an ugly-duckling adolescent who is first encouraged in social flirtations, then undone by an attractive, more popular cousin. Director Joan Micklin Silver (Hester Street) misses the stronger undercurrents of F. Scott Fitzgerald's original story, just as Novice Director Peter Werner is defeated by the portentous gothic glooms of the Joyce...
...strange causes in an extremely eye-catching way. The seeming abundance of Jews in the media was explored. The magazine was littered with loot, almost as if More's editors had collected little gems for the past few years and decided all at once to show us their splendid collection...
They are up to it. Dunnock unfalteringly reveals the interwoven strands of love and hate in a mother's heart, and Joseph Maher is splendid in conveying the sleazy, yet captivating charm of one of life's eternal dropouts...